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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 12:44:50 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
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To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
CC: Christopher Hoover <ch@murgatroid.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional
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Dave Jones wrote:

> That seems to imply that the current glibc makes futexes mandatory,
> which surely isn't the case or we'd not be able to run with 2.4 and earlier
> kernels.

Current == current development.  LinuxThreads is not developed anymore
and with nptl futexes are mandatory.

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